Monday, 31 May 2010

199 Hydra from Aegis Conversion Details

WOO-HOO! IT'S HALF TERM!

That means I've a week off and - hopefully - some fine weather in which to take photos of my army for 'Post 200'.

In the meantime (and somewhat anticlimactically) here are my notes and annotations for converting the Aegis defence line autocannon into a relatively convincing Hydra. I'll mostly let the pictures do the talking.

First, pre-planning in my Fifth Book of Arcane Scribblings. Some of you have seen this before: it's the exercise book into which I vomit all my hobby thoughts by candlelight late at night as Mrs. Drax dozes next to me. Bizarrely, these particular pages read anti-clockwise [ignore the stuff top-left!]:

Now all the constituent parts:

And the end product - albeit still not quite finished (I've not had the energy to paint of late):

awesome conversion. Best one I've seen so far. Will Probably give this a try instead of buying a hydra from Forgeworld (looks just as good, and for less). Just a quick question, the turret mount is just the mount for the quad gun as it is in the kit, isn't it?

Thanks so much, Ghost21! I'm quite pleased with this one, and it really really was simple.

It'd be even easier with store-bought plastic rod than the pen tubes I used, too.

You're kind-of right about the mount - the gun itself is all from the aegis quad gun - but the other thing which makes this vehicle look a little different is that the chimera turret mount is converted so that it's further back along the hull.

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Like so many, I've now forsaken GW and fallen utterly in love with Bolt Action, as well as occasional 15mm forays.
Oh, and using X-Wing to tell cool stories about a Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...